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Culture & Imperialism
Edward Said
Imperial power is constructed on a bedrock not only of force but of culture as well. Culture provides the crucial underpinning, justification and validation of empire. Its crudest manifestation is perhaps Kipling’s “White man’s burden.” A more refined version is the French “mission civilisatrice,” civilizing mission. Imperialism is often thought of as a European phenomenon […]
The Fate of Legal Abortion
Katha Pollitt
There are few issues more divisive than abortion. Vitriolic rhetoric denouncing Planned Parenthood is part of a larger agenda: eliminating legal access to abortion. The historic 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision declared: “We recognize the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally […]
Faith, Ferguson & Nonviolent Resistance
Osagyefo Sekou
Fifty years after the Watts uprising in LA what has changed in terms of institutional racism? The supposed post-racial U.S. ushered in by the election of Barak Obama as president seems more symbolic than substantive. Killings and abuse of African Americans by state security forces continue at an alarming rate as do high levels of […]
Chomsky 87th Birthday Interview
Noam Chomsky
The latest in the historic series of Chomsky-Barsamian interviews. Alexander Cockburn used to quip that the two greatest disasters to befall the United States in the 20th century both happened to be on December 7th: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Noam Chomsky’s birth in Philadelphia. In this exclusive birthday interview, Chomsky reveals his […]
The Nature of Capitalism
Noam Chomsky
(2CDs) Chomsky talks about the economic system and corporate crime. He says it’s not just GM and Volkswagen. “It’s across the board. Johnson & Johnson, the huge pharmaceutical firm, is apparently facing billions of dollars of fines for mislabeling prescriptions. Financial institutions are paying billions of dollars in fines for basically robbery of the public. […]
Deciphering Foreign Policy
Noam Chomsky
2 CDs Bernie Sanders, then Mayor of Burlington, opened up City Hall for Chomsky to decipher some of the standard tropes surrounding the selling of U.S. foreign policy to the American public and the world. Sanders called Chomsky “an important voice in the wilderness of intellectual life in America.” Chomsky, in the lecture section, comments […]
The Midnight Soldiers
Daniel Sheehan
The Midnight Soldiers, according to Daniel Sheehan, are a secret team of former CIA agents, retired military officers, anti-Castro Cubans and others, with connections to the White House, who run guns, smuggle drugs, and carry out political assassinations. The Midnight Soldiers network has airlines, airstrips, depots, bank accounts, and all the trappings of a major […]
The U.S. Government’s Role in the Global Drug Trade
Daniel Sheehan
Palestine: It’s Time to Tell the Truth
Barbara Lubin
Barbara Lubin addresses the ongoing Palestine-Israel issue. She talks about the origins of the conflict going back to the 1917 Balfour Declaration. She discusses the Holocaust and the guilt felt by Europe and the U.S. She says, “The European Christian community was looking for a way to deal with the ‘Jewish problem.’” The focus was […]
A Global Warning
Tom Hayden
The winds of political change blow from all directions. For many decades they’ve blown hardest from the Right – a corporate-friendly, conservative agenda involving endless war and military spending and an evisceration of the public sector regardless of its impact on civil society and the environment. But some radical voices are saying, “Something is in […]
Imperialist Feminism
Deepa Kumar
When you hear imperialists making claims about their concerns for women’s rights then you know something is really rotten in Denmark. The plight of women has historically been mobilized to suit the goals of empire. That continues to the present. One of the pretexts of the U.S.–led invasion of Afghanistan was “rescuing Afghan women.” Writing about […]
Challenging the Bias
Jeff Cohen

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